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US online brokerage TD Ameritrade says its chief operating officer (COO) David Kelley is leaving the company.
24 January 2011
Trading technology vendor Fidessa says it will add a further 90 staff to its Belfast operations after securing nearly £1 million from Invest Northern Ireland.
21 January 2011
The European Commission has suspended all emissions trading after hackers broke into systems, stealing credits worth millions of euros.
20 January 2011
Six Swiss Exchange has teamed with buy-side trading network Liquidnet on a platform to let members execute large block trades in European securities.
OpenGamma, a UK-based financial analytics start-up, has raised $6 million in a series b funding round led by FirstMark Capital.
17 January 2011
A former investment analyst has been fined £50,000 for using Bloomberg Instant Messenger to send "misleading and inaccurate disclosures" about a listed company, affecting its share price.
The New Zealand Exchange (NZX) says it is winding up Axe ECN, conceding its Australian venture cannot "generate sustainable economic returns".
14 January 2011
Barclays Capital is planning to axe around 600 jobs this week, including back office positions, according to press reports.
13 January 2011
Nyse Euronext has set up a strategic committee that will assist and advise on the creation of a pan-European Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) for corporate bonds.
UK finance information vendor Markit has acquired Canadian risk analytics outfit QuIC Financial Technologies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
12 January 2011
Credit Suisse Securities is set to launch a US electronic communications network (ECN) called Light Pool that will target long term investors.
The London Stock Exchange says human error, rather than foul play, caused an outage at its Turquoise trading platform in November that resulted in a delayed technology migration.
11 January 2011
Exchange operator Bats Global Markets could be set to embark on an initial public offering after hiring underwriters, according to the Wall Street Journal.
10 January 2011
A US judge has ruled that Investment Technology Group (ITG) did not infringe the patent of rival outfit Liquidnet.
06 January 2011
The Finextra office will be closed after Wednesday 22 December, re-opening Tuesday 4 January.
22 December 2010
London-based Derwent Capital Markets is set to launch a £25 million hedge fund that will use Twitter to predict the market, according to press reports.
17 December 2010
Barclays has agreed to sell multi-broker, cross-asset electronic execution platform RealTick to fintech firm ConvergEx. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
16 December 2010
Business news TV channel CNBC has partnered Swiss vendor CarryQuote to develop mobile and desktop market data applications.
15 December 2010
Tech giant Intel has acquired a stake in Omnesys Technologies, a Bangalore-based provider of software for securities trading and order management systems. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
14 December 2010
Former Goldman Sachs computer programmer Sergey Aleynikov faces up to 15 years in prison after a New York jury found him guilty of stealing propriety code connected to the investment bank's high-frequency trading platform.
13 December 2010
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